Workshops
Moscow Campus Workshops
Participants will select four workshops, one at each of the following session times. Most workshops within a discipline build consecutively, but they can also be take separately.
See a draft camp schedule (PDF)
Thursday, June15
Workshop 1: 9:30 a.m.
Workshop 2: 1:45 p.m.
Friday, June16
Workshop 3: 9:30 a.m.
Workshop 4: 1:45 p.m.
Thursday
Zero Waste Zero Waste: A Fabric Jigsaw Puzzle - 9:30 a.m.
Design and create apparel leaving no fabric waste on the cutting room floor. Learn to sew a zero-waste product. No sewing experience required.
Laser Applications on Fabric - 1:45 p.m.
Explore the effects of a laser on fabric through etching away fiber and color to strategic cutting that transforms the physical and aesthetic properties of the fabric.
Friday
Needle Felting - 9:30 a.m.
Go wild with wool! Learn to create creatures and add embellishments to wool garments with needle felting.
Block Printing with Nature - 1:45 p.m.
Use leaves, petals, potatoes, and plants to create printed pattern designs on cotton fabric.
Thursday
The Spaghetti Marshmallow Challenge - 9:30 a.m.
This workshop presents a classic activity for beginners in design thinking. Participants will work in small groups and will have the opportunity to experience what it is like to design and construct an intervention as part of a team. The challenge is to create the tallest free-standing structure in 30 minutes using no more than 20 sticks of spaghetti, 1 yard of tape, 1 yard of string, and 3 marshmallows.
Collage as Architecture - 1:45 p.m.
This workshop will introduce compositional and organizational foundations as a method of design thinking in architecture. Participants will use a variety of materials to create a composite of an issue relative to the natural, social, or built environments.
Friday
Quiltscape - 9:30 a.m.
During this workshop, participants will explore using observational and tactile methods to capture the essence of sites on campus. Participants will incorporate various techniques used to analyze a site. Then, participants will apply these techniques during an outdoor exercise.
Agency and Placemaking - 1:45 p.m.
This workshop, involves the design of a human-scale intervention on the University of Idaho campus. Incorporating principles of structure, qualities of light and conditional elements, participants will represent ideas through hand sketches and model making using a given kit of elements.
Thursday
Nature Journaling in the Arboretum - 9:30 a.m.
Slow down and dive into the details of the plants, flowers, and trees that make our campus so beautiful. Students will engage in micro and macro observational drawing in the outdoors to explore and record the Visual Elements in our natural world.
Mixed Media Accordion Books - 1:45 p.m.
Participants will use mixed media approaches including, drawing, watercolor, collage, and relief print to create a cohesive composition in an Accordion Book format.
Friday
Visual Design: User Interface - 9:30 a.m.
Explore mobile app design and solve real-world problems. Along with Art and Design and College of Business faculty and students, you’ll work on screens of a real app in development for our university and be able to play with the prototype on your phone as we design it together.
Visual Design: User Experience - 1:45 p.m.
Find out how user testing works and how designers use this feedback to improve their mobile products. Along with Art and Design and College of Business faculty and students, you’ll test a live prototype of a real university web product as we make changes to its design together.
(Workshops Coming Soon)
Note: There are no Thursday or Friday morning workshops in Landscape Architecture.
Thursday
Introduction to Landscape Architecture - 1:45 p.m.
In this workshop you will design a pocket park for downtown Coeur d’Alene! Will it include seating for rest and relaxation or a water feature for cooling and aesthetic benefit? Maybe it will include trees for shade and a plaza to be used for any number of events. From New York City’s Central Park to Riverfront Park in Spokane, professional landscape architects create designs that bring people and the natural environment together whether it be in downtowns or in suburban neighborhoods. The workshop will start with an introduction to landscape architecture by the hosts and move to the pocket park problem statement and then analysis, idea synthesis and final plan development.
Friday
Design Communication for Landscape Architecture - 1:45 p.m.
In this workshop you will take the design of the pocket for Coeur d’Alene that was completed the previous day and make use of it exploring a host of high impact graphic techniques to communicate the design intent. Efforts will focus on generation of plan graphics, sections, perspectives and use of modeling software to produce effective presentation boards and related deliverables.
(Workshops Coming Soon)
